PITTSBURGH, PA, October 28, 2000--Never before in the 12-year history of women's
swimming and diving at Grove City College has there been a debut like it.

Freshman Peggy Whitbeck (Saegertown, PA/Meadville) broke
two varsity records and secured a trip to the NCAA Division III Championships in
her first college meet as the Lady Wolverines opened their 2000-01 season
at Carnegie Mellon University on Saturday. Whitbeck beat the
Division III automatic qualifying standard and set a new varsity and CMU pool
record in the 200-yard butterfly with a first-place time of 2:06.80. The
non-tapered time shattered the Division III qualifying "A" standard of
2:08.49 by nearly two seconds, earning her a spot at the 2001
national championships, March 8-10, at the Flickinger Aquatic Center in
Buffalo, NY.

Whitbeck also broke the varsity record in the 200
individual medley with a winning time of 2:15.42, and swam on the first-place
400 medley relay team, which finished in 4:16.10. The relay team also
included junior Sarah Erdos (Broomall, PA/Marple Newtown), sophomore Amanda
Schade (Imperial, PA/West Allegheny) and freshman Julie Pullin (Munroe Falls,
OH/Hawken).

Erdos added a first-place swim in the 50 freestyle with a
time of :25.85, while the rookie Pullin wasted little time recording her first
individual victory, touching first in the 200 backstroke in 2:18.40.